I am interested in processes, techniques, and practices when something turns into flesh and blood (tropology), when something materializes or "incarnates". My work moves along the intersections of late modern mysticism, performance art, and theopoetics. Here, I engage primarily with the writings of the French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943). With Weil, I try to explore the ancient heritage of tropological exegesis along with the insights of Continental philosophy. In a nutshell, I want to contribute to the theological discourse with a tropological theo-poetics based on Simone Weil.
On a theo-political level, tropological thinking brough…
I am interested in processes, techniques, and practices when something turns into flesh and blood (tropology), when something materializes or "incarnates". My work moves along the intersections of late modern mysticism, performance art, and theopoetics. Here, I engage primarily with the writings of the French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943). With Weil, I try to explore the ancient heritage of tropological exegesis along with the insights of Continental philosophy. In a nutshell, I want to contribute to the theological discourse with a tropological theo-poetics based on Simone Weil.
On a theo-political level, tropological thinking brought me to the notion of eusymbiosis, the inevitable interconnectedness and thus shared vulnerability of life - or as Catherine Keller puts it: intercarnation. Against this backdrop, I pursue "doing theology" as something that is both political and never innocent, and never without violence. Theology, for me, is therefore indebted to society for asking ever anew the question of what ultimately matters.
